Asst. Prof. Tina Post became intrigued with how the gesture of expressionlessness operated in the 20th-century Black performances across literature, visual and performance art, film, theater, dance, ...

Deadpan is not so much a type of joke as a mode of delivery, a manner of address to an audience that often provokes nervous laughter. Comedian Nathan Fielder’s persona is marked by deadpan. In his hit ...

Introduction: Some type of way -- 1. Subjectivity and self-specimenization -- 2. Minimalism and the aesthetics of Black threat -- 3. The opacity gradient -- 4. Excess and absence (or, The Negro ...

Image Credit: Still from The Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) / Paramount Pictures Think you know how the iconic ‘The ...

Wisconsin Book of the Month highlights a book — new, newish or neglected — by a state writer or on a Milwaukee or Wisconsin subject that Journal Sentinel books editor Jim Higgins recommends you read ...